Emily (45 ways): Pronunciations

How to Pronounce Emily

Our model has identified 45 different spellings of Emily that are grouped together because they share at least one of 4 different pronunciations. If something seems off, you can help us improve our grouping algorithm by rating whether pronunciations are correct or incorrect for a given spelling.

The audio files on this page are organized by pronunciation. Click the play button next to each spelling to hear that pronunciation spoken aloud for a particular spelling.

Our model is 60.9% confident that Emily is pronounced as EH-muh-lee. There are 44 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Emily is EH-mih-lee, at 19.6% confidence. There are 20 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

EH-muh-lee

100.0%

993,099

100.00%

60.9%

EH-mih-lee

46.7%

945,951

95.25%

19.6%

EH-mee-lee

37.8%

944,389

95.10%

8.7%

eh-MEE-lee

33.3%

966,687

97.34%

10.9%

EH-muh-lee (3 syllables)

45 names (100.0% of variations)

EH1 M AH0 L IY0

Emily

Verified

Confidence: 60.9%

Emilie

Verified

Confidence: 51.3%

Emilee

Confidence: 27.3%

Emely

Verified

Confidence: 81.1%

Emmalee

Confidence: 55.3%

Emalee

Confidence: 58.5%

Emelie

Verified

Confidence: 76.5%

Emmaleigh

Confidence: 41.9%

Emili

Confidence: 30.6%

Emiley

Confidence: 25.0%

EH-mih-lee (3 syllables)

21 names (46.7% of variations) 95.25% of births

EH1 M IH0 L IY0

Emily

Verified

Confidence: 19.6%

Confidence: 23.1%

Confidence: 31.8%

Confidence: 33.3%

Confidence: 47.2%

Confidence: 18.4%

Confidence: 54.3%

Confidence: 41.7%

Confidence: 20.0%

Confidence: 32.4%

eh-MEE-lee (3 syllables)

15 names (33.3% of variations) 97.34% of births

EH0 M IY1 L IY0

Confidence: 10.9%

Confidence: 5.1%

Confidence: 13.6%

Confidence: 10.8%

Confidence: 25.0%

Confidence: 16.7%

Confidence: 7.9%

Confidence: 11.4%

Confidence: 10.8%

Confidence: 10.8%

EH-mee-lee (3 syllables)

17 names (37.8% of variations) 95.10% of births

EH1 M IY0 L IY0

Confidence: 8.7%

Confidence: 12.8%

Confidence: 13.6%

Confidence: 5.6%

Confidence: 5.6%

Confidence: 8.6%

Confidence: 25.0%

Confidence: 6.7%

Confidence: 11.8%

Confidence: 8.1%

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Emily. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Emily, please vote using the thumbs up button.

EH-mih-LEE (3 syllables)

8 names 26.1k births

EH1 M IH0 L IY1

Should "Emily" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

EH-muh-LEE (3 syllables)

16 names 18.9k births

EH1 M AH0 L IY1

Should "Emily" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Emmalee 8.9k births

Emalee 3.8k births

Emmaleigh 2.5k births

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 M AH0 L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable. It's really hard to get a text-to-speech model to say names the way you want it to. And describing how vowels are emphasized in English is a bit of a mess.